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Individuals at the heart of UAE Tour coronavirus scare test negative

A view from inside the Crowne Plaza hotel, which is on lockdown due to fears of the Corona Virus, looking towards the hotel where cyclists from the UAE Tour are being held (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)The two individuals originally suspected of having the coronavirus at the UAE Tour, which caused the entire race to be put under quarantine, have tested negative for the virus. The news came as the Department of Health in Abu Dhabi, where the riders, staff and press from the UAE Tour have been quarantined, confirmed that […]

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Laura Kenny says ‘it has been a month to forget’ after Worlds crash

Picture by Simon Wilkinson/SWpix.com - 28/02/2020 Cycling UCI 2020 Track Cycling World Championships Berlin Germany - Day 3 - Women's Omnium Scratch Race - Laura Kenny crash and injuryLaura Kenny has said she’ll be glad to put the last month behind her after suffering two heavy crashes in race in Canada and at the World Championships today in Berlin. Kenny completed the ominium at the World Championships even though all hope of a medal had disappeared when she came down hard in the […]

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Lambie confident of beating Ganna’s new pursuit record

Picture by Alex Broadway/SWpix.com - 28/02/2020 - 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships presented by Tissot - Das Velodrom, Berlin, Germany - Ashton Lambie of The USA in the Men’s Individual Pursuit Qualifying.American Ashton Lambie is confident he can break Filippo Ganna’s new individual pursuit world record time when he travels to altitude in April. Lambie is set to go to Bolivia with British track team Huub-Wattbike to mount an assault on the individual pursuit, team pursuit and hour records. Despite being bested by Ganna in the […]

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Filippo Ganna takes individual pursuit world title

Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com - 28/02/2020 - 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships presented by Tissot - Das Velodrom, Berlin, Germany - Filippo Ganna of Italy breaks his world record in the Men’s Individual Pursuit qualifying.Italian Filippo Ganna took the individual pursuit world title in comfortable form at the Track World Championships in Berlin this evening. Ganna set a new world record on his way to the final, where he faced off against the USA’s Ashton Lambie. While Lambie took an early lead at one point stretching to just over […]

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Laura Kenny crashes out of World Championship omnium scratch race

Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com - 28/02/2020 - 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships presented by Tissot - Das Velodrom, Berlin, Germany - Laura Kenny of Great Britain in the Women’s Omnium Scratch Race.Laura Kenny has suffered a cut to her face near her right eye after coming down hard in the first race of the omnium at the track cycling World Championships in Berlin. The omnium olympic  champion went down hard in the penultimate lap of the scratch race and slid down the banking with further riders […]

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